Word: bitched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even for great American prose writers, the theatrical muse has been a bitch. Henry James' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's plays were disappointments; Saul Bellow's The Last Analysis lasted less than a month. Thus Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and Collaborator Eve Friedman find themselves in distinguished company with Teibele and Her Demon, a "fable" for Broadway...
...mention a large waste of official Washington's time. Brzezinski retained a lawyer to explore the possibility of a libel suit. At the Post, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee defended the series by Quinn, who happens to be his wife of 14 months, as a "son of a bitch of a good story." He described the photograph as "very suggestive." At the White House, which has lately had frosty relations with .the Post, the retraction was a delicious victory. Said one top aide: "This is the newspaper they made the big movie about [All the President's Men]. About...
GETTING OUT This play slams the audience with a more personal discussion of equality. It is 24 hours in the life of a Kentucky woman who entered prison as Arlie, a hating girl-bitch who whored, escaped prison and finally murdered a gas station attendant. And it tells the story of Arlene, that same woman, who emerges from a long spell in prison to find that the four walls on the outside can be even tougher to escape than the padded walls on the inside...
...Bitch," he muttered, and the girl ran away. "Like I was saying, one story. I was doing a search and destroy with this guy, on a five-mile perimeter. He was a--well, I didn't like him much. He was from Oklahoma, he was losing teeth, he was one of those ignorant bastards they have to teach hygiene to, you know? But in the situation, I had to respect him, you know. So we are walking in the jungle, looking out mostly for animals and the Okie looked like he was walking down Madison Avenue for the first time...
...premium rates to avoid the crowding and hassle of cabin class. But despite this booming business and a 32% increase in basic fares, the airlines are encountering profit problems, chiefly as a result of higher fuel prices. Says Marvin Cohen, chairman of the CAB: "Fuel has been a real bitch...